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165Plato's Criticism of the "Democratic Man'' in the RepublicThe Journal of Ethics 5 (1): 57-71. 2001.The article discusses two puzzles about Plato''s account of the democratic person: (1) unlike his account of the democratic city, his characterization of a democratic person is markedly incorrect. (2) His criticism of a person so characterized is criticism of a straw man. The article argues that the first puzzle is resolved if we see it as a result of Plato''s assumption that a democratic person is a person whose soul is isomorphic to a democratic constitution. Such a person has a desire satisfa…Read more
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2How did Thrasymachus arrive at his account of what justice is? At first he simply announces it, but soon enough Plato tells us that it is the conclusion of an argument:“if one reasons rightly, it works out that the just is the same thing everywhere, the advantage of the stronger”(339a; Shorey trans., modified). Not as explicitly but clearly enough, we can see that Glaucon works up his contractarian account of justice by looking at the origin of justice (358c–e). Earlier, Polemarchus fetches the idea of ... (review)In Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 125. 2006.
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36The Good of the City and the Good of the Citizens in Plato’s RepublicPhilosophical Inquiry 39 (3-4): 8-25. 2015.
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86Plato on Friendship and Familial Love in the Lysis and The RepublicPhilosophical Inquiry 6 (1): 1-12. 1984.
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151Two Theories of Good in Plato’s RepublicArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 67 (3): 223-245. 1985.
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93Aristotle on Practical Inference, the Explanation of Action, and AkrasiaPhronesis 14 (2): 162-189. 1969.
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263Plato's Criticisms of Democracy in the RepublicSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 70-89. 2007.Plato's antidemocratic theory of social justice is instructive once we distinguish between the abstract parts of his theory and the empirical or other assumptions he uses in applying that theory. His application may have contained empirical mistakes, and it may have been burdened too much with a prolific metaphysics and a demanding epistemology. An attempt is made to look at his theory of social justice in imaginary isolation from empirical mistakes and from his metaphysics and epistemology. It …Read more
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26Hintikka on Knowledge and its Objects in PlatoIn J. M. E. Moravcsik (ed.), Patterns in Plato's Thought, Springer. pp. 31-51. 1973.
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